Collection dump - Seven solid rolls of silver dimes!!

[O-dog]

Still shaking from this find... don't know where to start!

Went to a new bank today, a Scotiabank a little ways out of my local bank circle. I asked for dimes, and they said that they had 7 rolls which were all customer wrapped. I took them all. I then proceed to go to three other banks, picking up 17 more CWRs of dimes. When I got home, I started on the rolls. Nothing in the first 11, so I move on to the rolls I got from Scotiabank. I open the end of the first roll, and a 1943 stares back at me.



I stay calm, and peek at the other end of the roll. A 1963 proof!



I then go all out and dump the roll onto the table. Solid silver!!! 50 silver dimes ranging from 1938-1968!!



The next six rolls were also solid silver!! Oldest was 1893!!! Only 15 non-silver in the 7 rolls.



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Final Tally: 335 silver!

1893 x 1
1920 x 1
1938 x 3
1939 x 9
1940 x 12
1941 x 9
1942 x 15
1943 x 22
1944 x 13
1945 x 17
1946 x 8
1947 x 18
1949 x 18
1950 x 29
1951 x 29
1953 x 1
1956 x 1
1960 x 11
1961 x 8
1962 x 12
1963 x 16
1964 x 17
1965 x 25
1966 x 15
1967 x 1
1968 x 7

Included are two proof 1963s and two mint state 1964s!

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I rushed straight back to the bank afterwards to see if the person dropped off anything else. Just 5 rolls of nickels. I'll put that in another thread!

It's out there, you've just got to look hard enough!

HH

-Owen

 

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[retire05]

holy cow! That is a find of a lifetime. Congrats

 

[Diver_Down]

Congratulations, Owen. Sweet Cull of Silver and I applaud you for composing a well-documented thread. Your creativity at composing silver p0rn is noted.

 

[boristhespider88]

Nice going! I love finding Canadian silver!

 

[BuffaloBoy]

AWESOME!!!!

 

[Zomotion]

Awesome!!!! That's is a sailboat load of silver dimes

 

[jun808bug]

Nice [emoji106]

 

[kingskid1611]

Wow!

 

[TheMastermind]

Awesome find! Great post and pics, dude!

 

[FireOnTheMountain]

That's awesome!
I had to go to the bank for some change for work one day and was given 3 rolls that said "wheat" on them. So I bought them out of the register and they were all wheat pennies!
Of course they weren't as cool as finding rolls of silver but I was still happy!

 

[Local_coins]

Drooling! Silver Canadian coins are beautiful!

 

[thurmownator]

Awesome find ! Mucho kudos.

 

[Argentium]

Beautiful score friend ! yup , you just have to keep playing - eventually you will win .

 

[Jyorsky]

Not a boatload ......a whole cruise ship. Major score congrats

 

[fistfulladirt]

Excellente!

 

[favored papa]

nice find but am I missing some thing? I thought all silver stopped in 64 except 40% ken's? Still super find about $375.00 in silver.

 

[boristhespider88]

nice find but am I missing some thing? I thought all silver stopped in 64 except 40% ken's? Still super find about $375.00 in silver.

Canada used silver in their circulation coinage until 1968.

 

[Joe777Cool]

Too bad they weren't American silver.....

LOL! Congrats!!!

 

[UnderMiner]

Cool. Neat finding a coin from the Victorian age!

 

[O-dog]

Thank you all!

Going back to the same bank tomorrow. If I'm lucky, something good might have been dropped off in the past two weeks.